MRTG Setup On ML 7.2

Summary: (Contributed by Colin Tinker)

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You will need to have a working web server and Perl installed to run 'mrtg', the 'Multi Router Traffic Grabber'.

To get the rpm go to any mirror site and you will find the rpm in the contrib directory, it is called 'mrtg-2.9.4-2mdk.i586.rpm' (or higher).

Install with

rpm -Uvh mrtg-2.9.4-2mdk.i586.rpm

The install puts an entry to run 'mrtg' in '/etc/crontab'. You can leave this alone and run it from there but I prefer the script below as it can be controlled more easily with

service mrtg start | stop | status

Do not forget to remove the entry or rem it out with a hash in the '/etc/crontab' file. Set the permissions on '/var/www/html/mrtg' with the command:

chown -R mrtg:mrtg mrtg /var/www/html/mrtg

Change the directory to /var/www/html and 'su' to 'root'. Run:

cfgmaker ––output=mrtg.cfg ––subdirs=HOSTNAME public@xxxx.g1gsw.org public@yyyy.g1gsw.org

The

––subdirs=HOSTNAME

––output

Next run:

indexmaker ––output=xxxx.html ––columns=1 ––title="xxxx Network Status" mrtg.cfg

This creates the index page for your site, do not call it 'index' as the manual page has an index.html, I used the domain name. That is the output part of the command,

––title="xxxxx"

––columns=n

The script? goes in /etc/init.d and is called 'mrtg'. Set it as executable (

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/mrtg

Next run:

service mrtg start

to start 'mrtg'.

To make it run at every (re)boot, run:

chkconfig ––add mrtg

Point your browser at 'http://localhost/mrtg/xxxx.html', 'xxxx' is what you called the index page above.

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Related Resources:

MRTG home page

Revision / Modified: July 31, 2001 / Dec 11, 2000
Author: Colin Tinker

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